Lutheran World Missions - When You Care Enough To Send the Very Best Baptist

 What should really chap some hides is
how much is spent on how little.

Bethany is 100% political, which can be observed from 100% of the full-time faculty coming from a father and son. That might remind some of Bob Jones University, with a succession of Bob Jones (I, II, III) and John Brown University (JB I, II, III) and Ecclesia College (Oren Paris I, II, III). Not one of those institutions is noted for its academics.

Lawrenz anointed Witte,
Brandeis U. versus Gordon Conwell Seminary.

Bethany has its lectures, which they have now named after one of its few scholars, Bjarne Teigen, who was trashed by WELS and shunned by the ELS for showing how wrong they were about Receptionism.

Teigen showed their heresy to them in his book on the Lord's Supper.

The Asian Mini-Seminary is staffed with jokers:

• Michael Smith - Trinity in Indiana, with Baptist and Presby professors. Unaccredited.
• Dimm Steve Witte - Gordon Conwell Babtist Seminary.
• Dimm Matt Doebler - Gordon Conwell Babtist Seminary.

So why is WELS spending so much money to send non-Lutherans over to teach Asians about Church Growth.

Bethany Lutheran Seminary - Two Full-time Faculty - Father and Son Schmelings

        The two full-timer faculty at Bethany are Gaylin Schmeling and his son Timothy.

I noticed that Michael Smith accepted the call to the Asian Mini-Seminary. The most recent move there was Matt Doebler, to make room for Ski getting an insta-call to Patterson's district.

Smith is the son of Kincaid Smith, DMin in Church Growth from Concordia, Ft. Wayne, during Robert Preus' UOJ years there.

Michael Smith has an PhD from Trinity in Indiana, a Babtist, unaccredited online school. "We are not affiliated (accredited) with any regional or national accrediting agency..."

Here is the Trinity catalog PDF.

Tuition is very low at Trinity.

 In WELS/ELS, it is not who you are,
but who you say you are.

Wiki on Trinity, which seems to be mostly online, with plenty of faculty holding sub-par degrees from Trinity and Grace. I give Trinity credit for keeping tuition way down.

After all these years, WELS/ELS has forgotten that college graduates teach high school. People with graduate degrees teach college. Scholars teach PhD students, and DMins are not doctoral degrees. Fakey fakey Church Growth hucksters get DMins because they are too dumb to get real PhDs. But the DMins wear doctoral robes and insist on being called "Dr. Olson" and "Dr. Kelm" and "Dr. Parlow" and "Dr. Krause."

I propose that DMins be addressed as Dimms. "I have a question, Dimm Olson." Or, "We are honored to have as our guest plagiarizer today, Dimm Parlow. He has preached sermons from all over the Internet."

The Little Sect on the Prairie hit rock bottom when they hired John Moldstad to be the New Testament professor, without him bothering to finish college. That mean his suffering students were more qualified to teach, since a college degree was required, than their seminary professor - soon to be Pope John the Malefactor.

 In other news, Jay Webber's ELCA online seminary
is accredited. (Ukraine cat)